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The CIA mole at the heart of the Kremlin may have been recruited when he was a humble but drink-loving 'lackey' at the Russian embassy in Washington, it was claimed Tuesday. Oleg Smolenkov complained to at least one colleague that he was underpaid, it was reported in Moscow, where he has been widely named as having been the spy agency's most valuable asset. Smolenkov, 50,...

The Kremlin on Tuesday played down US media reports of a CIA spy inside Russia’s presidential administration, calling them “pulp fiction”, but said a low-level official who Russian media suggested was the agent had worked there before being fired. CNN reported on Monday that the United States had successfully extracted one of its highest-level covert sources inside Russia in...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Tuesday played down U.S. media reports of a CIA spy inside Russia's presidential administration, calling them "pulp fiction", but said a low-level official who Russian media suggested was the agent had worked there before being fired. CNN reported on Monday that the United States had successfully extracted one of its highest-level covert...

The Kremlin on Tuesday played down U.S. media reports of a CIA spy inside Russia’s presidential administration, calling them “pulp fiction,” but said a low-level official, who Russian media suggested was the agent, had worked there before being fired. CNN reported on Monday that the United States had successfully extracted one of its highest-level covert sources inside Russia...

The man said to have been the top U.S. spy in the Kremlin, before he was spirited out of Moscow over fears his identity might be revealed, has been named by Russian media sources. The covert source was high up in Russia's national security infrastructure and had been the highest-level U.S. source inside the Kremlin for a decade, CNN reported. However, the network said that U.S....

PODGORICA -- A newspaper in Montenegro has published what it says are details of the 2017 disappearance of a former Kremlin official identified in Russian media as a possible CIA informer who fled to the United States. The daily Pobjeda reported on September 12 that Oleg Smolenkov and his wife and children arrived via commercial flight in the resort town of Tivat on June 14,...